Re: unattended upgrades

From: Benedict Verheyen (benedict.verheyen_at_sjki.be)
Date: 02/17/05

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    Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:27:08 +0100
To: Debian Linux Distro Users Discussion <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    Rudy Gevaert wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I was wondering what the best way is to do an unattended apt-get
    > update; apt-get upgrade ?
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    >
    > Rudy

    1. This should be avoided to prevent problems. Updates should really be
    monitored.

    2. You can run a script (vian cron for instance) to check for updates
    and to download these updates already so that when you are ready to
    perform the updates, the files are already downloaded.
    For instance:
    apt-get update
    apt-get --download-only upgrade

    You might want to install apt-listbugs too, it lists bugs for the
    packages you want to install when you are updating them.

    Regards,
    Benedict 

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